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<body> <p>When you submit your paper through the START online system,
you will be asked to electronically sign ACL's standard Copyright
Transfer Agreement on behalf of all authors.  The agreement is shown
below.</p>

<p>If your workshop is not using the START system, your workshop chair
will ask you to send a signed hardcopy of the agreement.  A printable
version may be downloaded <A
HREF="ACL-copyright-form.pdf">here</A>.</p>

<p>Before signing either version, please confirm with your co-authors
(and, if applicable, your and their employers) that they authorize you
to sign on their behalf.</p>

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<h2>Copyright Transfer Agreement</h2>

<p>Copyright to the above work (including, without limitation, the
right to publish the work in whole or in part in any and all forms and
media, now or hereafter known) is hereby transferred to the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), effective as of the
date of this agreement, on the understanding that the work has been
accepted for presentation at a meeting sponsored by the ACL and for
publication in the proceedings of that meeting.  However, each of the
authors and the employers for whom the work was performed reserve all
other rights, specifically including the following: (1) All
proprietary rights other than copyright and publication rights
transferred to ACL; (2) The right to publish in a journal or
collection or to be used in future works of the author's own (such as
articles or books) all or part of this work, provided that
acknowledgment is given to the ACL and a full citation to its
publication in the particular proceedings is included; (3) The right
to make oral presentation of the material in any forum; (4) The right
to make copies of the work for internal distribution within the
author's organization and for external distribution as a preprint,
reprint, technical report, or related class of document.  In the case
of a work prepared under a government contract, if the contract so
requires, that government may reproduce all or portions of the article
and may authorize others to do so, for official government purposes
only.</p>

<p>By typing my signature below, I confirm that all authors of
the work have agreed to the above and that I am authorized
to execute this transfer on their behalf.</p>

<p>Signature (type your name):</p>
<p>Your job title (if not one of the authors):</p>
<p>Name and address of your organization:</p>

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If you have questions, contact this year's ACL publications chairs
(Joakim Nivre and Noah Smith) at <a href="mailto:acl08pub@gmail.com">acl08pub@gmail.com</a> - last updated on $Date: 2008/03/05 14:03:42 $
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